Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students for study of the American college, and for the discovery of ways in which it can better meet the students of today. My chief criticism of the American college executive is that he does not sufficiently trust the students. His own distrust is the starting point of a vicious circle. From his distrust arises the paternalistic system of college government. From the paternalistic system there comes the postponement of important decisions by the student. From this postponement of important decisions there follows immaturity, irresponsibility and preoccupation with trivial rather than important issues. I firmly believe that if the American...
...article of faith and the justification of a philosophy of administration which has found its way to greater or less degree into every institution of learning in the United States. Because it confines intellectual curiosity within the bounds of dogma and so limits educational progress, it is a vicious doctrine, made more so by its apparent plausibility. Harvard herself, supposedly the very centre of the opposite theory, has not unhappily, been entirely free from its insidious influence. It must be fought vigorously if education is to continue to be evolutionary and not remain in stationary dogma...
...parallel of "Alfonse and Gaston" became perfect when M. Caillaux, conscious that M. Blum had dealt a vicious blow to his policies, yet retained his impeccable politeness to the point of congratulating M. Blum upon the oratorical perfection of his noble and sonorous periods...
...recent issue [TIME, May 17, MEDICINE] you are very severe upon Bernard Macfadden because of his "vicious promises" that cancer yields to dietary treatment. I have not seen Macfadden's article, so I do not know who are the authorities whose names he "drags in," but I have read the book of Mr. Ellis Barker, who quotes literally hundreds of authorities to the effect that the most probable cause of cancer is canned and denatured foods. And Sir Arbuthnot Lane, England's best surgeon, says in substance that Mr. Barker knows the cause of cancer and the remedy...
...sick man and I went to the best orthodox authorities, and except for such matters as surgery and dentistry, they did me no good whatever, and they charged me many thousands of dollars. Bernard McFadden taught me how to keep well and charged me nothing. So whenever I see "vicious" attacks upon him I rise to tell what I know...